It IS about race, you stupid fucking racist. Brown wasn't a thug, he had never been in trouble with the law and was enrolled in college to learn engineering.

The protests started peaceful, and only turned into rioting when the idiotic, racist Ferguson police acted like the racist morons they are.

People (and I use that word grudgingly) like you are the problem. I'm a white man who grew up in the St Louis area, and can tell you from experience that Missouri is indeed the most racist state in the union.

The real racists in Ferguson are the ones who see this case as being "a white officer shot a black suspect" rather than "a white police captain didn't know enough about racism to have black officers patrolling a black neighborhood" followed by "five shots are enough, if the suspect is on his knees, a sixth shot is not necessary" followed by "when black people are rioting, white people in Vietnam era camo is not going to be a solution" followed by "once trust is lost, not even a black State Police Captain is